'I did it my, (or was it his?), way'

We hear a lot about 'Agendas' nowadays. He who writes the Agenda has the power. So it is important that he gets it right. But right for whom?

We have become accustomed to the so-called hidden Agenda - which I take to be a list of topics which implies one objective but which is actually written so as to achieve another. Sadly, the use of the hidden Agenda has become routine in many circles including, it seems, most layers of Government from the Cabinet to the Town Council. It is now no more than a device to enable them to do it their way.

We should stop being surprised that most so-called 'initiatives' produce the very reverse of what was said to have been intended*. The opposite of what was intended turns out, in practice, to have been what the Agenda writer wanted all along. By the time we realise that it is too late to argue.

The routine manipulation of the system in this cynical way - by stealth - is one major reason why so many people no longer see any point in voting. (Perhaps that is the result of a hidden Agenda too? Do they just not care, anymore, whether we do or not?)

Offered the prospect of 'growth'...